![]() ![]() PlayStation Now 12-Month Subscription $59.99 (US PSN Store) Thankfully, all is not lost! Deals savante Wario64 managed to scrounge up a 12-month PS Now link for the web store of the PSN Store that’s at $59.99! This means that you can buy a year’s membership of PS Now, and you’ll automatically transition to PS Plus Premium in June for “free.” Here’s a current screenshot of the PlayStation Store PS Now subscription page where you can see that the 12-month subscription offer has been pulled, and the only ones left are the seven-day free trial, and subscribing to it for $9.99 every month. Unfortunately, Sony pulled the 12-month PlayStation Now subscription package on the PlayStation Store. In case you didn’t know, all existing PlayStation Now customers will migrate to PlayStation Plus Premium with no increase to their current subscription fees. While PlayStation Plus Premium is priced at $119 a year, you can get it today at half off at just $59.99 by subscribing to PlayStation Now for 12 months! For PC players this all just looks muddled, and a worse deal than ever before.In case you didn’t know, Sony announced a new tier system for PlayStation Plus last week with PS Plus Premium, PS Plus Extra. For Sony there have been positive signs-finally porting God of War was a very welcome move-but those are hard to square with the new PlayStation Plus. Now the consoles are almost becoming optional hardware, particularly in the case of Xbox, and these industry giants are gradually working out what their future on PC will look like.įor Microsoft and Xbox Game Pass, it looks bright. It is a strange time to be a PC gamer, because the consoles always used to be 'over there' somehow, distinct in what they offered and with little PC crossover. That said, at least it was its own service-now it feels like PC streaming of PlayStation games is just being rolled into a wider category, and Sony's decided it wants to put the screws to PC gamers. PS Now always felt like a slightly odd fit on PC, and you could sense from the product's lack of polish that it wasn't seen as any sort of a priority. The PC side of the service has become even more of an afterthought than usual. But limiting the PC audience to Premium and effectively doubling the price of streaming PlayStation games on PC comes across like a statement. Part of that is making its console the most attractive place to play PlayStation games. ![]() It is understandable that PlayStation, a brand built upon its own bespoke hardware, wants to keep the biggest chunk of its business on that hardware. $120 a year, when I think of how else that could be spent on PC, is not attractive. But we're talking PC here, an ecosystem with endless dirt-cheap games and a variety of competitive subscription offerings, and one where the allure of old PS3, PS2 and PSP games is perhaps not quite so shining. I mean… if you're exclusively a PlayStation player, that is no doubt a decent deal. If you wanted to play devil's advocate for Sony, the only real argument is how much more the Premium sub offers than the current PS Now subscription: over 700 games, all the benefits of the lower tiers, and a game trial system for any games not included. But, at the same time it remains the only way to play Bloodborne on PC. PS Now always felt a bit more half-hearted on PC than it did on console (thanks largely to a terrible desktop app). It even recently created a Playstation PC label. Of course it has to take care of its bread-and-butter console audience, but in recent years has been more open to the opportunities for PlayStation games on PC. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The largest bats in the mortal world had nothing on the leather-winged black beasts that called the stretches of tunnels and the caverns home. He kept a wary eye on the shadows as things moved in them, chittering to each other, wanting to avoid another encounter with some of the local wildlife. The tunnel opened out into a cavern with a jagged ceiling only thirty feet above him that dipped lower in places, great pillars of rock joining it to the uneven ground. He had tried so many times and in all the ways he could think of to get a fix on her location, but no matter what he did, he couldn’t feel her. If she was dead, lingering in the place between worlds where he ruled, he should be able to feel her as he could others who moved through the veil. Thanatos pondered that, for what he was sure was the millionth time, as the path levelled out and the tunnel thankfully widened. Now, they had entrusted him with her rescue, and he would do all in his power to bring her back to them.Īs god of death, it was his duty to reap the souls of the dying when their allotted time in this world ended, only he had never been summoned to separate Calindria’s soul from her body, as he should have been, and her soul had never passed on to Hades. His king and queen had believed her soul lost forever when it hadn’t passed through the veil to reach Hades for judgement. Now that they knew Calindria’s soul had form, the gentle goddess needed her daughter back, a child she had mourned for almost six centuries.Ī girl who had been ruthlessly murdered in front of her twin, Calistos. It was the toll he could see those days were taking on his god-queen, Persephone. It wasn’t only the thought of pleasing his god-king that had him scouring uncharted lands day after day without a break though, refusing to admit defeat. He was beginning to doubt those memories, but every meeting he had with Hades and his sons had him coming away with a renewed sense of determination to complete the mission Hades had entrusted him with and find Calindria. Thanatos raked his free hand through his damp onyx hair and exhaled hard. With only a description of what Hades’s oldest son had seen in the memories of another to go on. Thanatos had charted realm after realm at the very edges of the Underworld, places beyond the sight of his god-king, seeking the one where Hades’s only daughter was being held. Fitting his seven-foot-two frame into small spaces was difficult enough at the best of times, but this was beginning to move past difficult into impossible territory.įour years of searching and he had nothing to show for it, and his god-king, Hades, was growing impatient. He hoped to the gods it opened out again soon and didn’t get any narrower. He huffed and gripped the wall, fingers tight in the holds he found as he carefully navigated the steep slope. He probably should have turned back the moment the tunnel had started to narrow, picking another route to explore and chart in his mind.īehind him, something chittered, as if mocking him. Maybe continuing along this path had been a mistake. ![]() He ducked lower, almost on his backside, and hunched forwards, easing his wings past the obstruction. ![]() He grimaced, lips pulling taut as the tops of his black wings knocked against the rough ceiling and caught on the protrusion of rock. Thanatos ducked beneath a dip in the roof of the tunnel, bracing his hand against the onyx rock as he worked his way downwards, watching his footing. In a realm that turns memories against them and where anything can be an illusion, can Calindria and Thanatos learn to trust each other enough to work together to escape the hellish domain, or will the darkest moments of their past prove too powerful to overcome? But the Fates have other plans, placing a distractingly gorgeous god of death in her path-a warrior who is determined to convince her that what she believed is the truth is in fact a lie. ![]() Armed with only a description of the location of her prison seen in a vision by her oldest brother, Thanatos has spent four years hunting for her, determined to complete his task and save her.īut when he locates Calindria, she’s not the delicate little girl he remembers-she’s a fierce, bewitching and beautiful warrioress who stirs unwanted feelings in his black heart and she’s on a mission of her own.Ĭalindria, daughter of Hades, has a mission: escape her prison, hunt down the ones who murdered her twin brother, and then make her family pay for abandoning her. Murdered six centuries ago and her soul captured before it could pass on, she now falls under Thanatos’s domain. Thanatos, god of death, has a mission: scour the unknown realms of the Underworld and retrieve the only daughter of his god-king, Hades. Book 8.0 in the Guardians of Hades series ![]() ![]() ![]() Fun Fact: “Swish Swish” is supposedly a reaction to Taylor Swift’s swipe at Katy, “Bad Blood. Watch the “Swish Bish” music video below. Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj’s Swish Swish Is Basically a Diss Track Aimed at Taylor Swift and Remy Ma By Trace William Cowen Trace William Cowen is a writer who also tweets with dramatic. Katy is set to host and perform the MTV Music Awards this Sunday August 27. Verse: Nicki Minaj Young Money Yo Pink Ferragamo sliders on deck Silly rap beefs just get me more checks My life is a movie, Im never off set Me and my amigos, no, not Offset Swish swish. Refrain They know what is what But they dont know what is what They just strut What the fuck Verse 1: Katy Perry A. I wonder if Nicki gave Katy any judging tips during the video shoot? 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In 2017, Katy then apologised to Taylor during a 24-hour YouTube live stream ahead of her album Witness being released. ![]() Katy isn’t the only American Idol connected artist in the video, which centers around a basketball team full of misfits. Katy's song Swish, Swish is also said to be about the feud with Taylor Swift. ![]() ![]() That text can be incorrectly or awkwardly translated by the Translation API.The video can be incorrectly transcribed from audio to text by the Speech-to-Text API.What makes this project trickier (read: more fun) than most is that there are at least three possible points of failure: ![]() (Ignore the fact that the speaker sometimes speaks too fast–more on that later.) Overall, you can easily get the gist of what’s going on from this dubbed video, but it’s not exactly near human-quality. I haven’t done any tuning or adjusting on it:Īs you can see, the transcriptions are decent but not perfect, and the same for the translations. Here’s one example dubbed automatically from English to Spanish (the subtitles are also automatically generated in English). What quality can we realistically expect to achieve from an ML-video-dubbing pipeline? So you can treat this project like your new hobby of baking sourdough from scratch: a really inefficient use of 30 hours.) AI-Dubbed Videos: Do they axe usually sound grood?īefore you embark on this journey, you probably want to know what you have to look forward to. ![]() (By the way, before you flame-blast me in the comments, I should tell you that YouTube will automatically and for free transcribe and translate your videos for you. Finally, we’ll “voice act” the translations using the Text-to-Speech API, which produces voices that are, according to the docs, “humanlike.” ![]() Next, we’ll translate that text with the Translate API. We’ll start by transcribing audio to text using Google Cloud’s Speech-to-Text API. “AI-Powered Video Dubs.” It might not get you Netflix-quality results, but you can use it to localize online talks and YouTube videos in a pinch. So in this post, I’ll show you how to use machine learning to transcribe, translate, and voice-act videos from one language to another, i.e. Besides, even if you did use machine learning to translate a video, you couldn’t use a computer to dub… I mean, who would want to listen to machine voices for an entire season? It’d be awful. Translation is a careful art that can’t be automated, and requires the loving touch of a human hand. So what are you supposed to do? The answer is obviously not to ask a computer to transcribe, translate, and voice-act entire episodes of a TV show from Japanese to English. Other times, entire seasons of shows aren’t translated at all, and you’re left on the edge of your seat with only Wikipedia summaries and 90s web forums to ferry you through the darkness. Sometimes you get the subtitles (“subs”) but not the voicing (“dubs”). The problem with watching anime, though, is that short of learning Japanese, you become dependent on human translators and voice actors to port the content to your language. This post tells you how to download YIFY subtitles and hardcode them into a movie.Alongside cooking for myself and walking laps around the house, Japanese cartoons (or “anime” as the kids are calling it) are something I’ve learned to love during quarantine. Related article: How to Add Subtitles to YouTube Video Easily and Quickly Conclusion Click Next > Stream to add the downloaded YIFY subtitles to the movie. Switch to the Subtitles tab, and check Subtitles and Overlay subtitles on the video. On the Stream Output window, choose the video codec you like and go to Profile edition. Tap on Add and choose a folder saving the movie and enter the file name. ![]() Check the Use a subtitle file box and press Browse to add the prepared subtitle file. Click the Add button to add the movie that needs to add subtitles. Open VLC Media Player and navigate to Media > Stream. Afterward, press on OK and start hardcoding subtitles into the movie. Then select a new folder to save the movie. Then tap on the dots to add the subtitle file. From the Video Setting window, choose the Additional Subtitle option from the Additional Subtitle list. Tap on Add File to load the movie that lacks subtitles. Open the program and click on the wanted output format. Get the Format Factory installer from its official website and complete the installation. Remember, these tools only allow you to hardcode subtitles into the movie. 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Than one, but at x equals 1, it becomes undefined. Going to be equal to 1 for all other X's other The constraint that x cannot be equal to 1. Same thing as f of x is equal to 1, but you would have to add And so anything divided byĠ, including 0 divided by 0, this is undefined. We get 1 minus 1, which is, let me just write Here, if you have f of, sorry not f of 0, if you Is that this thing can never equal- this thing is You're almost true, the difference betweenį of x equals 1 and this thing right over here, This to f of x equals 1? And I would say, well, If I have somethingĭivided by itself, that would just be equal to 1. Hey, Sal look, I have the same thing in the Let's say that f of x is going to be x minus So let me draw aįunction here, actually, let me define a function here,Ī kind of a simple function. ![]() ![]() Really, really, really, really simple idea. 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If the function is not continuous, even if it is defined, at a particular point, then the limit will not necessarily be the same value as the actual function. In fact, that is one way of defining a continuous function:į(c) = lim x→c⁻ f(x) = lim x→c⁺ f(x) for all values of c within the domain.īut, suppose that there is something unusual that happens with the function at a particular point. If you have a continuous function, then this limit will be the same thing as the actual value of the function at that point. Many aspects of calculus also have geometric interpretations in terms of areas, slopes, tangent lines, etc.Ī limit is a method of determining what it looks like the function "ought to be" at a particular point based on what the function is doing as you get close to that point. The reason you see a lot of, say, algebra in calculus, is because many of the definitions in the subject are based on the algebraic structure of the real line. 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The Bad: Digital signatures remain complex It seems digital signatures should be easy, their usefulness obvious, and their implementation widespread. ![]() documents quickly, effectively and paperlessly.ĭigital signatures have a number of advantages over their inky ancestors:įigure 1: A certified and signed PDF identifies itself as such when openedįigure 2: Mouse-over a PDF signature to view its statusįigure 3: If changes have been made since signing, you'll knowįigure 4: Acrobat provides information about the signatureįigure 5: If the document has changed, you'll get a warningįigure 6: Use any signature you like includes graphics, text and information about your organization or location. Once users create a Digital ID (more on that in the "Bad" section), design their signatures, know how to recognize a Signature field and understand what to do with it, they can sign PDF. The good news is that the technology exists to make it all work reasonably well. Writing on the screen itself is never going to be good for the screen, and it's pretty uncomfortable as well.Ĭurrent theory has it that in electronic documents, one needs to do a lot more than simply bind a signature image onto the electronic page. If you've imagined that a digital signature meant using some magic pen to scratch away on the screen to embed your penmanship into the document, you should forget it. The Good: Digital signatures are here, and they actually work Today's digital signature technology is principally effective in a vertically integrated environment. One of the most serious hurdles is the necessity (under the current implementation) of both sender and receiver being at least somewhat savvy to digital signatures in order to make the whole process work as intended. Integrating digital signatures and electronic documents into these workflows without replacing the whole system often doesn't appeal. Most legal and other paper-document workflows are rooted in filing cabinets and fax machines because paper remains the one document medium that is reliably horizontal - i.e., moves easily between organizations. Where digital signatures are gaining in implementation, such as in Belgium, privacy concerns have followed.īeyond the technical, representational and privacy issues, potent business-cultural and usage barriers to digital signature implementation remain as well. Digital signature key systems, signature devices and the other accoutrement of secure electronic documents remain arcane to all but the well-initiated. Digital signatures are not yet regarded as legal in many jurisdictions, and most approaches to implementation remain organized around the technology rather than the user, akin to the well-understood role of the ballpoint pen. ![]() Of course, it's not all up to Adobe, or any other single vendor in the digital signature world. There were a few recent rollouts of digital signatures on a large scale, such as in Belgium, but these remain few and modest compared to the concept's clear potential. The infrastructure for digital signatures exists in Acrobat, but vendors in this space must do a lot better before digital signatures - in PDF files and otherwise - become a significant part of everyday reality. PDF digital signatures are beginning to emerge as a viable solution to keeping the "inking" process in the digital realm. ![]() |
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